In article <Xns9935DEDF5AB84liberalhereyahoocom@216.168.3.44>,
"liberalhere@yahoo.com" <liberalhere@yahoo.com> wrote:

The_Man <me_so_horneeeee@yahoo.com> wrote in
news:1179594037.897308.27200@o5g2000hsb.googlegroups.com:

Curiously, USA, which is more traditionally religious, if far
ahead of Europe (almost no religion at all) in science

Not really. Much of the US lead in science was due to foreign
scientists emigrating here before and after WWII. We pay baseball
players $20 million a year, but physicists--$104,500.

You are an idiot of truly epic proportions.

I'm not a Christian, by the way.

Physicists, by way of contrast, mostly live as parasites, by getting
"funding"--i.e., loot--forcibly taken by the government from their
fellow citizens. --MJ}***

In article <Xns9935DEDF5AB84liberalhereyahoo...@216.168.3.44>,





"liberalh...@yahoo.com" <liberalh...@yahoo.com> wrote:

The_Man <me_so_hornee...@yahoo.com> wrote in
news:1179594037.897308.27200@o5g2000hsb.googlegroups.com:

On May 19, 12:46 pm, kT <cos...@lifeform.org> wrote:

hurt_beyond_rep...@yahoo.com wrote:

Why are these institutions allowed tax exempt status, and
why are they allowed to participate in government?

Traditional, and I stress traditional, churches get very
little in tax breaks. They serve the interests of
their own local communities mostly through volunteer
efforts. Their influence is outside the political arena
and they generally don't interfere with business.
Contrast that to "non-profit" also tax exempt
organizations that collect money to buy political
influence through lobbyists in Washington D.C. which
passes all kinds of laws and regulations that often don't
even make any rational sense; global warming being but the
most obvious one. I'm not very religious myself but I'll
side with a traditional church most every time over any of
these other groups.

So to the idiotic crackpot mind it's either the church or
the lobbyists.

Science is on the outside in America.

How would you know? You don't know anything about science,
and, in fact, think that the science of global warming is
bunk.

Curiously, USA, which is more traditionally religious, if far
ahead of Europe (almost no religion at all) in science

Not really. Much of the US lead in science was due to foreign
scientists emigrating here before and after WWII. We pay baseball
players $20 million a year, but physicists--$104,500.

***{And that's a lot more than they are worth, in most cases.

Experienced engineers with good track records, on the other hand, are
mostly millionaires.

That's because until fairly recently engineers,
like basetball players, entertainers, etc. have had something that they
could trade for good money in the private sector. Nowadays, with most of
our manufacturing capacity moving overseas, that is ceasing to be the
case; but it has been so in the past, and most of the older engineers
who remain in the U.S. today are very well off because of it.

Physicists, by way of contrast, mostly live as parasites, by getting
"funding"--i.e., loot--forcibly taken by the government from their
fellow citizens. --MJ}***

When we had tons of money we could buy whatever we needed. Now
with national debt of over 8 trillion and trade *debt* of 6.6
trillion, our "buying" days are over.

***{America's buying days will be over when foreign central banks cease
to accept "dollars" that we create out of thin air in exchange for goods
that their citizens produce by means of hard work. We will not, however,
reach that point until they have stripped our country of its
manufacturing capacity, jobs, and know-how. In the meantime, they will
continue to sell to us for less than what it costs us to produce those
same goods, to induce our corporations to continue moving our factories
and jobs into locations under their control. The end will come
eventually, of course, and may be very near, but it is not yet here.
--MJ}***

Over the next decade, you'll see a big difference in living
standards between the US and Europe. Even Canada will be much
richer than the US.

***{China and India will use the same technique--i.e., holding their
currencies at artificially low levels--to strip Europe of its factories,
jobs, and know-how, after they are done with the U.S. That will happen
because after the dollar crashes, the Euro will become the world's
preferred "reserve currency," and, thus, the same technique will work
with Europe that worked with us. The only solution is to return to the
gold standard, but, of course, that would require the slobbering
halfwits who are wrecking this civilization to admit that virtually
everything they have done for the last 100 years has been wrong, and
they aren't going to do that. Instead, they will continue to ride on our
backs until this civilization, and most of us along with it, are quite
thoroughly dead. --MJ}***

I'm not a Christian, by the way.

***{I'm an atheist, not that it matters much. The average atheist is
just as stupid, just as eaten up with altruism, and thus just as evil,
as is the average Christian. --MJ}***

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On Sun, 20 May 2007 01:56:16 -0000, in a place far, far away,
"liberalhere@yahoo.com" <liberalhere@yahoo.com> made the
phosphor on my monitor glow in such a way as to indicate
that:

Curiously, USA, which is more traditionally religious, if
far ahead of Europe (almost no religion at all) in science

Not really. Much of the US lead in science was due to foreign
scientists emigrating here before and after WWII. We pay
baseball players $20 million a year, but
physicists--$104,500.

When we had tons of money we could buy whatever we needed.
Now with national debt of over 8 trillion and trade *debt* of
6.6 trillion, our "buying" days are over.

Over the next decade, you'll see a big difference in living
standards between the US and Europe. Even Canada will be much
richer than the US.

That's an interesting fantasy. It's certainly not born out
by any economic trends.